I didn’t know they used 0-indexed buildings in ingerland
Most of Europe does
Really? I’ve apparently never considered that… I’m in Norway and the ground floor is most definitely the first floor.
TIL
Zero-indexed versus one-indexed. You all know which is the right one
Hot tip in the US. In an elevator the floor with the star is the ground floor, regardless of what number is present. This helps clarify any confusion between systems and also is clear for locations that have floors below the ground floor (I’ve most commonly seen this with parking structures)
In Sweden, maybe the rest of the EU, the entrance floor (entrevåning) has a green ring around it.
I’ve seen it in most European countries
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I’ve seen multiple hospitals where the floor with the main entrance is 2, those will get the star. So it’s more of a “here’s how you leave” indicator rather than ground specifically
Yes, that’s a good example I’ve seen too. So was the 2 not the ground floor?
I guess I’ve also seen places where the terrain is not even, so there are multiple entrances on different levels. I didn’t take notice of what the elevators said though.
In the UK most lifts have a G for ground floor.
I like ground being 0. That way you have a continuous number line from basement to the top:
-2 -1 0 1 2 3 4 5
As some one outside both countries 1 2 3 4 5 is where it’s at. The second floor being the first makes no sense.
I live under the British system (Australia) of floor naming.
So annoying.
This is where it’s a benefit to live in a hilly area. For a building on a hill, it’s quite normal to enter on a different floor depending on whether you’re on an uphill side or downhill side. The main entrance to my son’s dorm is the third floor
I just assume the Brits are on a hill or slightly tilted
Ok so I need some clarification. Building has a crawlspace so there are a few steps up to the front door (please don’t tell me the front has some weird name too), so the entrance level isn’t necessarily the ground level what do you do?
Option 2 the building is built on uneven ground so the front entrance is ground level but the back entrance is on the floor below the entrance level. How do you number that?
For simplicity sake front refers to street view side and back is the opposite of front.
Same thing in Spain
Except in Spain they use “PB”, which makes even less sense unless you know it’s planta baja. It’d be better if there were a zero. At least the English use “0” or “G”.
G doesn’t make sense either unless you know it means “ground”. It goes both ways
do Brits skip 13?
Nope. We have floors of 13s.
In Hungary, we also have a base floor depending on the building, as some are built on a mountain side.
In the US, when a building is built into a hill, or mountain side, like that, all the floors are numbered 1 through whatever, and then there will be labels to where the the floors, with exits, let you out.
Hey thanks. It’s strange, every time I think about looking that up, I get side tracked or something. Thanks for doing the leg work.
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Finally a metric we can agree on “the Americans” do better?! World peace is possible!
I learned this when I was a wee lad: I was playing Runescape and trying to solve a quest I was stuck on with a walkthrough. The guide said that the macguffin was on the first floor of some building, and I must have spent hours looking on the ground floor with no luck.
I finally asked my big brother for help and he said, “Have you tried looking upstairs?” And there it was, blew my mind.
This is why the wiki now has a converter for British to American floorings
Dude, I had the same problem, but with a clue scroll! I cannot tell you how long I spent searching the bottom floor of buildings around the Ardougne square…
#Computergamestaughtmesomething
